Products · Broad category
Conventional tools
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 5 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Conventional tools, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Search results are cluttered with cookie banners, autoplay ads and spam, making search frustrating2026-02-04
- Installing non-repo packages requires manual downloads or third-party repos, repeated after each distro upgrade2022-02-20
- Requires memorizing many shortcuts, hundreds of menus, and typing values into dialog boxes2022-02-10
- Standard non-Vim text editing feels slow, clunky and frustrating to the commenter2021-12-03
- Many Unicode symbols are a pain to generate on standard keyboards2016-06-17